Press Photo/Dave OdetteThe Michigan State Police bomb squad assisted the Kent County Sheriff's Department at the scene of a shooting in Spencer Township late Tuesday night.

SPENCER TOWNSHIP -- A woman who planned to break off her relationship with her boyfriend was shot in the abdomen, then beaten by the man, who later apparently fatally shot himself inside their mobile home, police said.

Kent County sheriff's officials reported finding the 50-year-old man's body inside the trailer off 19 Mile Road NE about 11:15 p.m. Tuesday, about three hours after the woman who had been shot first called police.

The 41-year-old woman was undergoing emergency surgery overnight at Spectrum Health's Greenville Memorial Hospital, police said. Her condition was not available, but police described her as "very seriously injured."

"She never lost consciousness, and she carried on a conversation with the dispatcher. As far as we know, she was only shot one time," Sheriff Larry Stelma said.

Authorities believe the weapon was a shotgun. Neither the victim's name nor the deceased's name were released.

Police said the couple had a blended family that included five children, but none of those children were home when the argument broke out at 13083 19 Mile Road. Authorities said they never before have responded to that address on any type of disturbance call.

Because the mobile home was located off the road in a rural area, police said it was a difficult scene to secure. They blocked off traffic surrounding the home, located in the northeastern corner of the county, near Lincoln Lake Road.

The incident began with the woman's 911 call about 8:10 p.m. She told dispatchers she had been shot in the stomach by her boyfriend, Stelma said.

"The officers arrived on scene and were able to extricate her from the trailer and rescue her," he said.

"After her boyfriend shot her, he went into another bedroom and shut the door."

Once the woman had been rescued, authorities then tried to determine where the man was and whether he was alive.

As police surrounded the home, some neighbors were kept from theirs. Lee Yeomans, who lives next to the shooting scene, said police barricades kept him from his house as his wife, Janae, waited inside, the doors locked for her safety. He kept in contact with her via cell phone.

Yeomans said he had met a man who lived at the neighboring house just the other day.